It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to
efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental as faith in the free market is the …

Next to their well-documented authoritarian cultural agenda, new-rightist populist parties
have developed specific views on the welfare state: welfare chauvinism and welfare …

Various studies have demonstrated that while the lower educated support economic
redistribution more than the higher educated do, they nonetheless dislike welfare support for …

This overview of research on homelessness in the EU draws largely on the work undertaken
by the European Observatory on Homelessness since its formation in 1991, supplemented …

The new edition of Doing Time brings this widely recognized book up-to-date and provides
an accessible and informed discussion of current debates around prisons and penal policy …

The literature on the prevalence and causes of punishment has been dominated by
research into the United States. Yet most of the world's prisoners live elsewhere, and the …

Corrections: A Critical Approach, 3rd edition confronts mass imprisonment in the United
States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the …

A controversial hypothesis [Charlton (2009). Clever sillies: Why high-IQ people tend to be
deficient in common sense. Medical Hypotheses, 73, 867–870] has recently been proposed …

" Why have some Western democracies experienced a substantial turn toward tougher law
and order policies whereas others have not changed their policies to a similar extent? This …

Exclusionary urban policies have repeatedly been interpreted as 'urban revanchism'—
strategies aimed at attracting gentrifiers and tourists at the expense of marginal and minority …